Personal Items.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18015, 6 March 1924, Page 11

Personal Items.

1 lie Hun. C . J. Parr, Minister of Jus- ! tue and Education, expects to be in j I on or about the L'Oth inst. i 1 !:.• Bisnop of Nelson is at present I a que.-: at Warner's Hotel. ; - ,, ' r W- K. Kinnernev ('Tiniaru > is ; ft.'.yinjj :;t the United Service Hotel. i M t . Kirk icy ( Hustings > ;;nd j W. Mister i Melbourne i ure staying i :.t V.'jirii-.-r's, llotei. ; 11. K. Gillespie ' Auckland") \\. J. P. McC'ulloch (Duiiedin) arc situ/nsjf at the L'larendon Hotel. iJr. I'. \ . Bevan-Brown. who has ' (•!i atwndjng the Medical Conference at An; kland. ix-turns to Chnstchurch t-'-morrow. Mr J \ lsier Brown. ex-M.P. for returned to Auckland by the H.uaun on Tuevday, alter a visit to A i..-:ra!ia. .Mr J. C. Free, a member of the !',;!• stnere County Council, was last .'.m!:'. ai>;)')inred to the executive of the a:it.•]•!,ury Progress League. Mr ]). J. Evans West land • attended iast Mght meeting of the executive "f tin' Canterbury Progress League, and was accorded a cordial welcome. .Mr K. A. Rose. ~ the Australasian (iiauipion distance runner, who underwent an operation for appendicitis in Masterton on Saturday, is making satisfactory progress towards recovery. A Perth cablegram states that tleiicral Bramwell Booth, of the Salvation Army, accompanied by Coministoiler has arrived on his visit to Australia and .New Zealand. Air (i. Hancox, iM.A., BSc., has i.een appointed director of the Palmorston Xoith Technicail School, in succession to .Mr F. I>. Opie, who resigned on accouut of ill-health. After the battle practice carried out ar tho Redcliffs camp on Sunday by the men of the New Zealand Mesdical Corps, Col. Young, O.C. Southern Command, presented a St. John certificate to Serge.'uit-Major Godfrey. Mr Will Mayo, U.S.A., the worldfamous surgeon, who is attending the Medical Conference at Auckland, intends to make a tour of New Zealand by special car, and is expected in Christchurch about the 16th inst. At flic annual meeting of the Merivnle Football Club last evening, on the motion of the president, Mr i'\ T. Evans_ a vote of sympathy was passed with the relatives of the late Mr H. E. Hiddiestone, who was at &ne time a very prominent member of the clutt. Tho Rev. W. Walker, formerly of -New Brighton, who is now in charge of the Dunvdin Central Methodist Mission, was congratulated at yesterday's meeting of the Method st Conference on the success which had attended his efforts during the year.

A Melbourne cable states that two new Roman Catholic Bishops have been appointed. The Kev. John Barry, Administrator of the Melbourne Cathedral. succeeds tho lato Dr. Gallagher at Goulburn; and Monsignor Killian, of Broken Hill, has . been appointed Bishop of Port Augusta. Mr G. H. Bullard, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Canterbury, in declining nomination for the chairmanship of the Lake Ellesmere Domain Board at the annual meeting of the Board held yesterday, stated that he was approaching the retirincr age and might go out of the service any day. Archbishop Cattaneo, Papal Delegate to Australia and New Zealand, who took part in the celebration of Archbishop Redwood's golden jubilee in Wellington, left Auckland on Tuesday by the Tofua, on a visit to the Jslands. Bishop Darnand, of Samoa, was a,passenger by the same vessel. Mr G. Laughton, Grand Treasurer of the North Island Grand Lod<*e, U.A.0.D., and Mr A. Aitken, Grand President of Otago and Southland Grand Lodge, are expected to arrive, in Christchurch this morning to attend the annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Canterbury, to be held to-day. Colonel P. J. Bailey, of Gloucestershire,. England, arrived at Auckland by tho Maramaj from Sydney, on Tuesday. Onlnnel Bailey intends to remain in New Zealand for 17 days, .part of which time he will spend in fishing at Ilotorua and Taupo. Master N. Bailey, a nephew of Oolonel Bailey, and a grandson of Lord Inchcape, is accompany him. After drill at Eangiora on Monday night, B Company Territorials presented Lieutenant W. Smith with a silver match-box and cigarette-case and holder. The presentation, which was made by Lieutenant Friclfleton, V.C., was in appreciation of the manner in which Lieutenant Smith had looked after the company during the recent training at Burnham Camp.

The possibility of a visit to New Zealand being made by Mr Lloyd George was mentioned at the Welsh Society's St. David's Day celebrations at Wellington. It was stated that the Australian Cymery were trying to secure the r services of Mr Lloyd George for their next annual function and that if they were successful Wellington would try to secure a visit from the exPremier of Britain. At yesterday's meeting of the Harbour Board it was decided, on the motion of Mr H. Holland: "That tho Board place on record its regret at the retirement of Mr J. B. Mitchell, District Traffic Manager of Railways, and expresses deep appreciation of his services, at the same time wishing Mr Mitchell many years of happiness in his retirement." The motion was carried unanimously. Constable W. T. Kelly, who has been stationed in Dunedin for the past fourteen years, has received notice of his promotion to the rank of sergeant, and will transfer to Christchurch at an early date. Sergeant Kelly was for six vears in the plain clothes department and for two years a detective. For eleven months lie was detective in charge of the Invercargill district. For the past two rears he has been assistant clerk in the district office at Dunedin. At last night's session of the Methodist Conference, Mr J. H. Edmondson. on behalf of the Home Missionaries of the Church, presented the ltev T. G. Brooke, who is on the _ eve of his retirement from the position of secretary of the Home Mission and Church Extension Department, with a handsome rosewood clock, and Mrs Brooke with a beautifully bound volume as a token of the goodwill ot the Homo Missionaries of the Church throughout a enZealand. Tie Rev. T. G. Brooke suitably responded.